General
  Africa Online. A wide range of information on current events as well as other topics. Doesn't cover all countries.
Africa South of the Sahara. Lots of links to countries and topics.
African Studies Center (University of Pennsylvania). Many, many links to country-specific as well as other information on a broad range of topics. Some emphasis on East Africa.
Africa Update Archives. A quarterly newsletter with articles on a variety of topics, including female circumcision.
The Ants of West Africa. All you'd probably ever want to know.
IDB Summary Demographic Data. U.S. Census Bureau information on population.
Internet African History Sourcebook. Lots of documents relating to African history, from ancient to contemporary.
Maps of Africa. Extensive collection of maps. (Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection)

News and links
  Africa News. Stories from the Pan Africa News Service
CNN: Africa. News from CNN.
Daily Nation on the Web. This is the web site of a newspaper in Nairobi, Kenya.
The EastAfrican. Web site of a Kenyan weekly newspaper.
Mail & Guardian. Newspaper from Johannesburg, South Africa.
Post. News from Zambia.

Culture
 

Adire African Textiles. Online gallery of a variety of textiles.
Africa: the art of a continent. The Guggenheim Museum in New York established this site as part of an exhibition in 1996. It describes art and artifacts in various regions of Africa.
Africa Music Encyclopedia. Information on styles and artists.
Art & Life in Africa Online. University of Iowa site which concentrates on art (images and essays) but also has good introductory info on 107 African peoples and on Sub-Saharan countries.
H-AfrArts Links to Other Sites. Maintained by the H-AfrArts email list, this site has to a variety of sites with information on African arts.
Kings of Africa. Exhibition of photos of African kings, with descriptions. Fascinating variety.
National Museum of African Art. One of the Smithsonian Institution museums in Washington. Exhibition galleries.
Sukuma Museum. Extensive Tanzanian museum site relating to the Sukuma peoples. Lots of images.
Yoruba and Akan Art. History, examples, and explanations of art from western Africa (Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria.
Nigeria
  Motherland Nigeria. The place to start. Vast array of information, from news to food to language to marriage to sports. Kid Zone includes proverbs, games, and photos. Incredible.
  Abiola sites:
    Abiola, Hafsat. Brief biography.
Abiola, Kudirat. Brief biography of Hafsat Abiola's mother.
     Interview. Tell magazine interview which appeared 8 days before her assassination.
KIND. Kudirat Initiative for Democracy. Established by Hafsat Abiola in honor of her parents.
Abiola, Moshood. Biography and other information on Hafsat's father.
 

Africa News Online: Nigeria. Collection of news reports.
CIA World Factbook. Extensive background information.
Elections in Nigeria. Results from the last elections (February & March 1999).
Human Rights Watch: Nigeria. Reports from the organization Human Rights Watch.
Information Please: Nigeria. Brief information from the Information Please almanac.
Library of Congress Country Study: Nigeria. Extensive information.
Nigeria.com. Lots of information and links.
NigeriaWeb. Another great place to start. Informational pages and annotated links. Very useful.
PoliSci.Com: Nigeria. Extensive information on politics.
Post Express. Internet version of the independent Lagos-based newspaper.
U.S. State Department Human Rights Report, 1998. American view of the human rights situation.

  Sites relating to multinational oil companies in Nigeria
    Boycott Shell Oil. Sierra Club presents its case.
Chevron Oil Company. Company perspective on their operations in Nigeria.
Crackdown in the Niger Delta. Human Rights Watch paper on the situation of oil-producing communities, especially an army attack on 2 communities in January 1999. (Published May 1999)
    Mobil Oil Company:
      International Closeup (background on their operations); Of the Sanctions Debate (1), Sanctions: what's in it for the U.S. (2), We turned out the lights, but the game went on (3), An argument for the carrot rather than the stick (4), Let's nurture human rights -- not dictate them (5)  Encouraging Change (6), Our Perspective (7) (multi-part description of their view on sanctions)
    The Price of Oil. Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights Violations in Nigeria’s Oil Producing Communities. Human Rights Watch's paper focussing on the role international oil companies in Nigeria. (Published January 1999)
Shell in Nigeria: What are the issues?. Essential Action, an activist organization, presents its case vs. Shell Oil. Look around the site for more information and links.
Shell Nigeria. Shell Oil Company site, describing its operations and defending its actions in environmental and human rights areas. Also includes considerable information on the people, arts, geography, ecology.
Shell-Shocked The environmental and social costs of living with Shell in Nigeria. Greenpeace report (1994).